Road here in laurel combined ten lanes of busy traffic. This is where sevenyear old, evans, was to fend for himself by a bus driver about 3 00 yesterday afternoon. He began a long odyssey trying to find home more than a mile away. His aunt is renee hub. He was outside for almost three hours trying toe find his way home. Tyshon and his mother live here. Renee described a frantic family search for him. He was found after dark walking near the James Harrison elementary school. A few blocks from home. He was screaming. He was crying. He was cold. We tried to touch his fingers. He couldnt move his fingers. They were red down to his knuckles. Montgomery countys transportation director apologized and promised an investigation. The bus driver was a substitute. Assigned to transport him to laurel in Prince Georges County where tyshon and his mother are living temporarily, under a program to assure stability. His aunt says she is satisfied the apologies and promises are sincere, but still she wo
Chart shows you this list are all of the legislative changes that have been effectuated just in the last year. Basically you guys are killing us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impacts of all of this additional leg
Us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impacts of all of this additional legislation in conjunction with our increased work load. So, the net result of this in terms of the impact on our budget is a 6. 3 increase this
Im not sure we made things easier by showing off. Thank you for the handout and thank you for being here. My pleasure. ~ ms. Lowell. My pleasure. My apologies. [speaker not understood] the executive director. This is my Deputy Robert collins. And in a second were going to have a slide to show you the mission of the rent board. I always come before you saying that my goal is to be the least of your problems, but not this year. I think [speaker not understood] were experiencing a bit of an affordability crisis in San Francisco. The mission of the rent board we can just follow along, if you dont mind. The mission of the rent board is basically to protect tenants from excessive rent increases while ensuring landlords fair and adequate rents for trying. In order to do that, our two basic services are Public Information and counseling and administrative hearings. And at the moment we have a 2 to 3 month backlog for priority cases for hearing and a 5 to sixmonth backlog for all other cases. I
In addition, in addition, this chart shows you this list are all of the legislative changes that have been effectuated just in the last year. Basically you guys are killing us. Not without very good cause, mind you. Now, some of these initiatives are not going to require a tremendous amount of additional work for rent board staff. The more or come on condo conversions will require no work on our part. Every other piece of legislation requires some additional effort on the part of rent board staff ~. It can be a database search for [speaker not understood] eviction notices. It can be a report to planning. A lot of them are hearings, will result in additional hearings. So, basically what we think is that due to the current state of the rental market and the shortage of housing for the foreseeable future we will anticipate [speaker not understood] recovering local economy. So, bring it on basically, but we are asking for additional staff to be able to deal with the effects from the impact